Hayashi decide not to run for a fourth term<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe opposition mayoral candidate Masataka Ota has announced that he would stand on an anti-casino ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said: “If I become the mayor of Yokohama, the casino issue will disappear that very day<\/strong>. To put it plainly, I will not do casinos.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe national government has postponed the period for IR applications <\/strong>but nine months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe application period will run now from October 1 2021 to April 28 2022<\/strong> meaning that Yokohama will not be able to make its application until after the mayoral elections in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-IR mayor Fumiko Hayashi said other issues would have an influence on the election outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Yokohama's proposed Integrated Resort (IR) bid faces significant uncertainty ahead of the upcoming mayoral election, where incumbent Fumiko Hayashi's potential re-election is challenged by anti-casino candidate Masataka Ota. The national government's postponement of the IR application period until after the July mayoral election means the city's IR future hinges directly on the election outcome, posing a material risk to prospective developers and investors.","focusai_entities":"Fumiko Hayashi, Masataka Ota","focusai_location":"Japan, Yokohama","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Bid Impact","query":"What is the projected financial impact on prospective IR developers and their capital expenditure plans if Yokohama's bid is definitively withdrawn post-election?"},{"label":"National IR Strategy","query":"How might the potential withdrawal of Yokohama's IR bid influence the national government's broader strategy and timeline for other integrated resort developments in Japan?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154,158],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-15578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15615,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578\/revisions\/15615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}